Smyrna times., 1887-05-11


APPLE blossoms.
STRAW HATS are in season.
PARAsOLs have come to stay.
The price of grain is on the rise.
SATURN is the evening star for this
month.
THESE are busy times with the
whitewash artist.
LOTs of country dudes come to town
on Saturday evenings.
CHOICE towering plants and early
vegetables are in the market.
THESE sunny days have started the
"gOin' in swimmin'" fever among small
boys.
The steamer John 4. Tygert will re-
sumo her regular trips on Friday, leav-
ing Philadelphia at Z p. NJ.
AMONG tie flowers that bloom in the
Spring, due praise should be given to
shad rOes. A child's flower.
The young man wnO was advised to
keep his wooden shirt on till the lilacs
blOOmed, can now venture on a draw.
IT is said that the butchers have
secret art of Transforming an old sheep
into a spring lamb by killing it in May.
"There once was season called Spring
Ii has gone with time on the wing,
And now, with hop skip and jump,
From Winter to Summer we land IN lump.
Vanished, the beautiful Spring"
The first week in May rarely brings
such growing weather for wheat and
grass as has been the case with the
week just past.
CHAs. FRAZIER has had his meat
shambles neatly papered and otherwise
well fitted up, with all the appointments
for first class meat market.
MOORTON's enterprising merchant
w. F. Collins, has something to say
about the " Almighty Dollar" and
what can be done with it at his store.
If the editors of the Record and
Farm and Garden will quarrel, they
should do it on the most approved
rules of syntax, which somehow was
crowded last week into back seat.
SOME of the wheat fields of fallow
sowing will hide a good sized dog.
There is more than the usual difference
this year between the fallow and the
stalk ground sowing.
MR.. CAMERON, who has charge O.
two cemeteries, says Norway naples
grew foot last week. The c!ematis
and other similar Towering plants will
grow from four to six inches day.
AT the meeting of the Clayton Sav
ing and Loan Association YESTERDAY
money loaned at SO cents premium
The following officers were elected
Jos. Snithers, Secretary w. G, Hill
Treasurer.
THE annual chestnut crop of peach
killing stories from Delaware is very
late this year.-Er.
Yes. we are now in the second week
of May, and this chestnut hasn't even
sprouted in this section.
LAST week was corn planting week
six days of uninterrupted work, ant
hot days at that. The planting will
a great many Tapped over however OF
this, because of unreadiness, and hav
lost time by the wet weather.
A RAINY SUNDAY is always a dis
tressing day to a young man in the las
rows of his teens" but a rainy Sun
day in May, like the last, when hi
new suit is all ready for him to bloom
out in, is " horribly provoking"
THE boreing for the artesian well a
Woodland Beach was at last report
some eighty feet below the surface. Oh
Saturday, sixty feet below ground, the,
struck log which was difficult to ge
through, only making six inches tha
day.
j. P. R. POLK, ESQ.,, of Wilmington
spent Sunday in Smyrna. He har
been circulating among the peaci
growers in several counties on tn
Eastern Shore and reports nineteenth
OF them in favor of return of the bas
kets.
THOs. B. MEGEAR makes whatmavb b
called combination spring and sum
mer announcement of merchandise
, In the line of well kept stores Mr.. Me
gears can we'll challenge the best, a
can well be testified to by his lOnges
and best customers.
The first wagon of sea trout made il
appearance in town this morning.
was evident, from the way the boy VIII
f held the reins blew his horn and yelled
, " hers your trout" that he thought h
was bringing good news and glad tic
ings to all the people.
/ The tax payers of school DistriC
No. 1l9, Clayton, will hold a meet
! ing on Saturday, May 14th at 2P NJ
t to consider and determine the question
= regarding the erection of an annex {
the school house; also determine th
sum of money to be raised.
: THE meeting to consider the estal
- lishment cf a Board of Trade i
Smyrna was, by request of parties il
< terested, postponed for one week. Tb
n meeting will be held on Wednesda
= night, May 18th, at 8 o'clock, in th
>, room adjoining the club room.
GOOD reports are coming from tb
Rev. James Conner, who was al
r pointed to Leipsic and RAYMOND
q Churches at the last Conference. H
8 preaching is attracting large coner,
e cations, and the churches at both place
= are quickened into a new and vigOror
4 life.
: The visitation of circus must be
: big event to our friends of Easto
!, down the d. &c G. railroad, judging frol
: the impressions it makes on the new
: papers-the Gazette having no le,
than seven and the Star nine loc,
references to the coming Of Rices eli
. Gus in their last issues.
i ONE Of our business men The is n,
: absolutely run down with business
> has the Yankee propensity of within
d 70 such degree that he carries a min
IS stick in his pocket. Whe he goes O,
q and sits down to talk, out comes h
y stick aud knife, and he leaves when h
e Is done, a pile Of shayings as big as b
d talk.
SMYRNA wants to erect a gymnasiui
# for the the benefit Of her young mel
& The Gazette will recommend as a sui
# stitute plenty Of elbow grease freel
4 applied on a wood pile. AS soon as cor
4 gets high enough a few weeks thinnir
o would also make those lads sigh +,
+ anything but a gymnasium. - Eastc
: Gazette.
FROM lilacs to chrysanthemums ",
= the vote of the Ladies' NJ. II. Mite 81
Z ciety, and a boquet of flowers wi
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